Travel

A great initiative caught my eye on Facebook at the end of last year. Less than a month after the GAA announced the Allianz National League football and Hurling fixtures, a newly founded business, T32 Tyrone Tours, ran by the McElduff family from Carrickmore, advertised...

Matthew McKeown is a part time lecturer at South West College, but he is also a past student of the college. In between times, he spent five years working in Australia, so if anyone is qualified to speak about how Vehicle Maintenance is taught in Further Education...

South West College Beauty Therapy Students recently spent three weeks on work placement in Oviedo, Spain. They each kept a journal of their adventures. Here's what they got up to in Week One!
Day 1: Sunday 4th March
Yadira Nugent: Today's the day we headed for Oviedo,...

Visitors to South West College recently marvelled at the tourist attractions of Northern Ireland. Last week, we hosted staff from Northern College in Ontario Canada, a college with an international reputation in civil and environmental engineering at technician and graduate level, and Aaron R. Klooster...

By Daveth Fox and Ciara McDonald
Daveth Fox
Myself and fellow lecturer, Paul Duffy, recently brought a group of thirteen foundation degree design students from Omagh and Enniskillen on a trip to Berlin, where we experienced a fantastic few days in the city, taking in some of...

By Eimear Bradley
During the month of November students from the Childcare and Health and Social Care department were given the opportunity to go out to Sweden for a three week trip. Ten of us participated in the trip from across the three South West College campuses,...

Planet Earth II is quickly becoming some of the most popular television of the year, and it's easy to see why. 10.6 million viewers tuned in on Sunday night to watch a series that required incredible amounts of skill, knowledge and money - not to...

Our Euro 2016 trip began in Holland, and although we weren’t yet in France, the atmosphere of the tournament was instantly all around us. In an Irish Pub in Amsterdam, a stopping point for hundreds of fans travelling from Ireland to Paris, everyone was talking...

Learning to drive can be exciting and daunting in equal measure, but you only have to do it once, and if done right, you can ensure that it is an experience to be embraced rather than feared.
Our first, and perhaps most important tip, is to...

Welcome to Way out West, a new voice from within the South West College.
A rural college with campuses across Tyrone and Fermanagh #SWC offers a variety of avenues and opportunities across further and higher education. Through an array of blogs, articles and people profiles, Way...